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September 27: The Right to Be Seen, Heard & Remembered

September 22: Our Truth Was Never Yours to Control

September 21: When Finding Each Other Became a Movement

September 20: We Refused to Keep Hiding

September 19: We Were Already Here

September 15: When Being Gay, Brown & Unapologetic Became Its Own Revolution

When we talk about LGBTQ+ resistance, Stonewall usually gets most of the attention. But our community was pushing back against mistreatment long before 1969. Sometimes that resistance happened in the streets. Sometimes it happened inside organizations. And sometimes it happened in places where LGBTQ+ people had very little power at all.

LGBTQ+ history and women’s history have always been deeply connected. Lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender and gender-nonconforming people have participated in movements for women’s liberation while also working to ensure that their own experiences and voices were not pushed aside. September 7, 1968, represents an important moment in that broader history. On that day, hundreds of women gathered in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to protest the Miss America pageant. Organized p

Before the marches. Before the hashtags. Before Pride became a worldwide celebration, LGBTQ+ people were already creating, resisting, loving, organizing, and leaving their mark on history. September 2 gives us another opportunity to look beyond the history we hear about most often and recognize LGBTQ+ people and spaces whose influence deserves to be remembered.